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Ignacio García Vidal was born in Cocentaina, Alicante, in 1979. He has an in-depth academic education: He´s Doctor with rating of "Cum Laude" with his PhD Thesis about the teaching of musical conducting by Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, he´s degree in History and Music Sciences (Musicology), by the Universidad de Salamanca and a degree in Communication Sciences by the Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca. This in-depth knowledge, in combination with his temperament and high exigency and experience, create in García Vidal an interesting and personal defined orchestra conductor.      

He began his training in Orchestra Conducting in Spain with Enrique García Asensio, and further expanded studies with Neeme Jarvi, Alexander Djmitriev, Jorma Panula and Paavo Jarvi in the International Master Courses in Orchestra Conducting from Pämu (Estonia), with Mas Conde in the Meisterkurse of the Konservtorium Musik of Vienna (Austria), and especially in the International Academy of Advanced Conducting in St. Petersburg (Russia), with Piotr Gribanov, Sian Edwards, and Leonid Korchmar, where he had the opportunity to conduct the State of St Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra and the Kongress Symphony Orchestra of the St Petersburg Philharmonic Society. Followed by going to Russia to study Psychology and Technich of Conducting with one of the greatest exponents of the Russian school of conducting, maestro George Erzhemsky, and continued his training with Piotr Gribanov in the Rimsky Korsakov State Conservatory in Saint Petersburg. Maestro Erzhemsky wrote: "After several meetings with creative character with Ignacio García Vidal, I´ve the strong impression that he´s a very talented and promising young conductor. If he´ll continue in this way of persistence and motivation, he´s destined to occupy a worthy place among representatives of this complicated musical specialty". In 2011 Ignacio was invited by maestro Daniel Barenboim to the West Eastern Divan Orchestra, with two conductors, one from Israel and one from Lebanon, to live and share the experience of working, rehearsals and coexistence.


Ignacio made his symphony orchestra debut when he was 20 years old in Spain, assuming shortly after, between 2001 and 2010 for ten years, the position as Artistic Director and Main Conductor in the "Ciudad de Salamanca" Youth Symphony Orchestra, with which he went on tour to Germany and Portugal, recorded two cd's, and which he established as one of the most important youth symphony orchestras in the country. When he was 24 years old he made his debut in South America with the Montevideo Philharmonic Orchestra, Uruguay. During his settled career, he has conducted important orchestras, like Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, Orquesta Sinfónica de la Región de Murcia, Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid, Orquesta de Extremadura, Radio National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraïne..., has been presented in prestigious international festivals (Mozartfest of Würzburg, Germany, -with the Würzburger Philarmoniker Orchester-, Festival Culturel International de Musique Symphonique in Algèrie -conducting the National Symphony Orchestra from Algèrie-, the International Festival of Youth Orchestras of Murcia, -as a guest conductor of the Festival International Symphony Orchestra-, Festival Serenates al claustre in Valencia ...), and he has crossed borders to work in countries like Argentina,  Colombia, El Salvador or Uruguay, where he has worked on several occasions as guest of the National Youth Symphony Orchestra "Jose Artigas" in tours in Uruguay and he conducted the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional y Coro Juvenil del Bicentenario de Argentina in a tour in Argentina.


García Vidal was honored as "Guest of Honor" of the City of Buenos Aires (Argentina) and won the "Young of the Year Award 2006" of the Rotary Club of Salamanca for his work in the orchestral conducting. He has shown a special sensitivity in the recovery and inclussion of Spanish symphonic music, and h
e has conducted important soloists, as Ara Malikian (violin), Raquel Boldorini (piano), Manuel Guillén (violin), Roberto Prosseda (piano), Emilio Mateu (viola), or Cuarteto de guitarras Entrequatre, among others.

García Vidal´s career is not limited to the artistic field, but maintains a personal philosophy of exchange of human values, doing a constant pedagogic job, teaching workshops in Musical Conducting (in places like Gran Canaria, Colombia, Montevideo and Buenos Aires), researching and writting several books and articles in specialized magazines in Musicology.  He constantly participates and collaborates with organizations working for equality and social integration, and projects of youth and children orchestras around the world, especially in Latin America.